Fagan, Freeman Named News Directors at Convention
Diocesan Press Service. June 11, 1975 [75225]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rev. Frank F. Fagan, Beaufort, S.C., and Canon Howard B. Freeman, San Francisco, have been named news directors for the communication operation at the 1976 General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Fagan, who is rector of St. Helena's Church in Beaufort, will be news director for the radio-television coverage of Convention by the national staff, while Canon Freeman, a public relations consultant, will be news director for the press room. Prior to entering the ministry, Mr. Fagan was employed for 10 years in the radio-television industry as announcer, newscaster and commercial manager for several broadcasting stations in North Carolina and Tennessee. His military career included broadcasting duties with Armed Forces Korea Network during the early 1950s in the U.S. Army.
A native of Rocky Mount, N.C., Mr. Fagan served churches in the Diocese of North Carolina before assuming his present position in 1973. He was on the radio-television news staff of the Executive Council at the last four General Convention, meetings.
Canon Freeman -- one of the few lay canons in the Episcopal Church -- brings to his position as news editor of the press room at the Convention a wide range of experience as a reporter, editor, correspondent, and public relations consultant.
Among the newspapers on which he has served are the Merced Sun-Star, the San Francisco Bulletin, and the San Francisco Examiner. He has been correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, and International News Service.
As a public relations consultant, Canon Freeman has served a wide variety of clients, including government agencies, political candidates, and commercial enterprises. - During World War II he was assigned to the Office of Information. In 1970 he was executive director of the 25th Anniversary Session of the United Nations in San Francisco, a position he had held also for its 10th anniversary. He was named lay canon to the late Bishop James A. Pike of the Diocese of California, and continues as canon and special advisor on press relations to Bishop C. Kilmer Myers. He formerly edited the diocesan publication, Pacific Churchman. Canon Freeman served as press room news director at the last three General Conventions and at the special House of Bishops meeting in August, 1974. The Episcopal Church's triennial General Convention will meet September 11-23, 1976, in Minneapolis/St. Paul.